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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1929-07-12

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1929-07-12, page 01

Central Ohio's Only
Jcwiih Newspaper
Reaching floery Home
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Devoted to American
and
Jewish Ideals
Vol. XII —No. 27
COLUMHUS, OIIJO. JULY i^. nj^^j
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
Unanimity Marks Reelection
of Louis Lipsky At Close
of Convention
Several Changes Aro Made In the Constitution of Organi¬ zation and Its Personnel
INVOKE U, Sa INTEREST IN RUSSIAN ZIONIST PERSE¬ CUTIONS
JJlHTiOIT, MICH.—For the first time ill many years a uuanimous vote marked the election of officers of the Zioui<;t Organization of America at the tliirty-becoiid annual eonvcntinii which closed its sesbtoub here yesterday after¬ noon. Louis Lipsky was re-elected prc'ii- dent amid the singing of the llatikvah. The eleclion was j^rceted with an ovation hy the audience.
A change in the-new administration was the election of Kahhi James G. Holler of Ciinciunati as chairman of the National Kxeeulive Committee t« suc¬ ceed Elihu D. Stone of Boston. By the vote of the convention earlier in the day the number of national vice-presklents was increased from three to si.t and the following were elected: Morris Rothen¬ berg, Judge William M. Lewis, Max Shnlman, Mrs, Archibald Silverman, Elihu D. Stone and Rahbi AI>lia Hillel Silver. Meyer W. Weisgal was elected secretary, Morris Weinlieri;, treasurer, and Harry P. Fier.<;t, as'sociate treasurer, of the Organisation.
An administrative committee of forty- five members was elected consisting of the following; Oscar Berman, Cincin¬ nati ; Hcrinaii Bernstein, New York; Rabbi Barnett Brickner, Cleveland ; Jacob ll. Colien, Brooklyn; Morris Cohen, New Britain; Dr, A. Coralnik, Xew York; Mrs. Benjamin Davi.s, Chicago; Max Engelberg, Pittsburgh; Mrs. Judith Eiistein, New York; Judge Harry Fisher, Chicigo; Jacob Fiblinian, New York; Harry Friedberg, Kansas City; David Freibcrger, New York; Jacob (iinsbiirg, Philadelphia; Abraham Goldberg, New York; 1. E. Goldber;,', Hartford; Dr, Israel GokUtcin, New York; Joiiph J. Goldstein, Xew York; Xathan Gold£.tein, Springlield; Bernard Nor¬ wich, Chicago; Dr. David J. Kalisiki, New York; Judge Gustave Hartman, New York; Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan, New York; Prof. Gustav Klausner, St. Louis; George Klein, Cleveland; Mrs. Alexander Lamport, Mt. Vernon; William B, Leaf, Philadelphia; Louis F. Levinthal, Philadelphia; Abraham Liebo- vitz. Dr. S. Margoshcs, Isaaf Meister, Isadore D. Morrison, Max Perlman, Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, Herman C. Robbins, Bernard A. Rosenblatt, Nelson Rutten¬ berg, all of New York; Philip Schott¬ land, Newark; Louis Shapiro, Ports¬ mouth ; Max Schoolman, Boston; Louis Topkis, Wilmington; Philip Wattenbcrg and Joseph Weiss, New York,
Emanuel Neumann, president of the Jewish National Fund, reported the sum of $375,000 had been raised during the past year in this country and the conven- 'tion adopted a resolution urging the Jews of America to raise a minimum of ^1,- 000,000 during the next year for the pur¬ chase of additional tracts of land in Palestine, David Freiberger of New York, chairman of a special committee of American Zionists appointed to protect the intercbts of American Zionists in Palestine reiwrtcd the American Zion Commonwealth, now functioning under the name of ¦ the Amic Coriwration. to be solvent. As a result of the raising of a sum of $25,000 toward the liquidation of the liabilities, deeds to land in Palestine which should have been re¬ ceived by American Jews during the past two years will be made available within the next six months, Mr. Frei¬ berger reported.
At its morning session the convention adopted a resolution directing the organi¬ zation Department to create a cultural branch for "the dissemination of more Zionist information and the stimulation of the study of the Hebrew language and culture." The adopted resolution urges Zionists to offer a Hebrew education to their children and calU for the organiza¬ tion by districts of an exhibit of Palestine products and the organization of study ^oups in flebrew and Jewish history and Palestine problems.
The convention decided to take over the Young Judaea deficit of $10,000 as of January X, 1900, and to decrease the subvention to Young Judaea from $10,- 000 to $0.00(>. A :iubsidy of $G,500 a year was voted the Hadoar and, following considerable discusiiioii on the question of the Avukah, with James Waterman Wise, Erra Sliapiro, Morris Rothenberg and others participating, it was finally de¬ cided to grant the Avukah $5,000 an¬ nually beginning January 1, 10^0, after the newly elected treasurer, Morris Weinberg, promised to see that the sum will he ^secured.
The question of an increase in dues was solved at the close of the last ses¬ sion on Monday which lasted until past (Continued on page 4)
LOCAL RABHI WAS
HONORED BY ZIONIST
CONVENTION
iting fricnd.s aud relatives in
|iur Goldberg, -i'\0 Linwood
: on Tuesday for Cincinnati
Cioldberg who has heen there
Mr. aud Mrs. (Joldbcrg
iiain in Ctncinnali for several
SOLOMON RIVLIN
Among the men honored by the re¬ cently held Zionist Convention in Detroit is Rahbi SuIuiikju Rivlin nf the Fast Broad Street Temple wliu was elected to the national ext-cutive committee of the Zionist OrKani/ation uf America. Kabbi Rivlin has been a Zionist agitator and propagandist for a number of jtars. He has done e.specially fine work on be¬ half of the rehabilitation of Palestine in Dcs Moines, Iowa, f^oincrvillo, Mass., and Columbus, Ohio.
Joint Picnic of The Agudath Achim Religious School and Junior Congregation
Annual Affair Will Take Place
At Hempy's Picnic Ground,
Sunday, July 14th, 1929
The Dnt'e—Sunday, July l-lth, VJ2i).
The Place—Hempy's Picnic Grounds. ' Hwj ta Ci't There—Drive out East Main Street to Brtce Road, then south on Brice Road through Brice Village, and turn left at church. Follow the road until j uu come to the picnic ground.s.
Watch the signs along the roads.
All children who attend the Religinu<; School on Sunday morning, and our little members of the Junior Congrega¬ tion on Saturday morning' are invited to come out and enjoy this outstanding treat.
Many prizes have heen purchased and wc have planned numerous games for all our pupils. You will be surprised when yon see all the goodies we have pur¬ chased to distribute among all the kid¬ dies.
All students should meet in front of the Agudath .Achim Synagogue at D o' clock. Teachers, members of the Board of Trustees of the Congregation will take care of the children, see to it they get there safely and wc will bring them back to the Agudath Achim Synagogue before sundown,
lirhtu Your Lunch!
AQUDATH ACHIM LAWN
FETE TO BE HELD TUES
DAY, JULY 16th
The Sisterhood of the Agudath Achim Synagogue will hold a Lawn Fete Tues¬ day evening, July ICtli, on the lawn of thto Synagogue grounds. A good time is in store for all who will attend.
A LETTER OF THANKS
FROM LOCAL BRANCH
OF JEWISH NATIONAL
FUND
Columbus, C, July 9, 19^9. The Ohio Jewisli Chronicle, North High Street, Columbus, Ohio,
Attention, Mr. Aaron M. Neustadt. My Dear Mr. Neustadt:
As chairman of the Flower Conimittee of the Jewish National Fund, I wish to express my grateful thanks at the splen¬ did manner in which you cooperated wrEli us ill making the National Flower Day a success in Columbus on June 9, 1029.
Your hearty si>onsorship of our Cam¬ paign through the medium of your paper, the Ohio Jewish Chronicle, otmtributed greatly, we feet sure, towards the suc¬ cess of our Drive at that time.
With sincerest appreciation of your services, and with best wishes for your continued success, I am,
Very cor<lialIy yours, J, L, Schwartz, Chairnian, Flower Committee, JLSiSJH Jewish National Fund
Announces Winners In the
Jewish Forum Short
Story Contest
Miss Bertha E. Josephson of
Columbus, Ohio, Receives
Honorable Mention
XEW YORK.—Announcement is made that Maurire Ucdiiion of Newark, N. J., won the lirst prize of $100.00 with his story entitled "Tbc Schul," submitted in the Short Slury Contedl of The Je'Jiish I'orum magazine; Mrs. Adele Blacknian of New York won lhe sccon<l pri^e oi .$o0,00 ior her story entitled "Rekin¬ dled" ; and Emanuel Cohen of New York w<ni tht third prize of I'SrI.OO for his slory entitled "The Second Genera¬ tion." Miss B. E. Josephson of (!nhnn- Inis, Ohio, received honorable mention, file judges were Marjorie Blaine, Rabbi .Miraliam Ihir.s.ein and Dr. Albeit J- Levinc.
This Short Story Contest conducted The Jewith Ponim had for its object lo elicit a greater desire on the jKirt of slory writers to face Jewish questions courageously in the development of the theme of the story. At present there is ;i tendency to evade ^Jewi'ili life and its problems l>y siiccuinbing to the lure of dramatic action in the intermarriage .story, unfortunately the Iheine of most of the short storie.-' submitted for publi¬ cation in Jewish periodicals.
Tn 'announcing the conditions of the contest, The Jeivi^h Fontm wrote, "Be- ;m'-e nf the scarcity Of good short stories emphasizing the spirit of loyalty to 'tra¬ ditional Judaism the contest will be limited to such storica as jiortray the successful struggle with those conditions iu the country that militate against traditionally Jewisli religious life and aspirations. No story wilh an intermarriage theme will be eligible for entry in this contest."
"Wc are very much gratified by tbc effort made on the part of the contribu¬ tors to this contest," .says the Editor of The Jc^i*ish I'oriim. Mr. Isaac Rosen- garten, in the July issue of that monthly. ".'Ml writers who understood the condi¬ tions of the contest, stressed the spirit of loyalty to Jewish tradition. While wc feel that it will take a little mOre time before the ability of writers of first rank i\ill bcconiu manifest among -some of lhe participants in a contest breathing the spirit of loyaTty to Jewish tradition, wc are confident that some oi the talent elicited by such contests wil! ultimately develop powerful defenders of Judaism and the highest ideals of our peo¬ ple."
The Jn^'i.sh Forum is publishcil as a literary monthly for the twelfth year. Us office is 40 West ;i2nd Street, Xew York City,'
ADOLPH OCHS INCREASES niillUEW UNION COLLEGE <;il<l TO HALF MILLION
ClNCINNATiTo. — The cnm- pnign for a J55,«00»flOO Endow¬ ment Fund fur the Hebrew Un¬ ion ColIcKe has paBscd the 54,- 000,000 mark by the incrcnsr of the contribution of Mr. nnd Mrs. Adnlph S. Ochs from $200,000 to RflOft.nOO, it waa announced here by Dr. Julian M«rgcnst«Tn, prpHident of the College.. The pacing of lhe $4,000,000 mark by July f, assures the gift of ?:>00,OQO made by Julius Roscn¬ wald, on condition that $3,500,- 000 be ruiRcd besides his sub- aeriptitm.. Fo«r individual half- milliun dollar contributions have been received, from Mr. Rosen¬ wald, the Guggenheim fnmily, the Schiff and Warburg fnmily, and .Mr. and Mrs. Ochs, nil of New Yurk City.. The total ti» date is now $-1,119,382.70.
l>n IMorgenstern stated lie is confident that the amount still needed to roach the goal of $5,- 000,000 will Kfiun be forthcom¬ ing, as many have promised con¬ tributions but have not yet de- tcrminod the amount.
Mr, Ochs is chairman of the Endowment Fund campaign.
Central Conference of American Rabbis Favors
The Revision of the Union Prayer
Book Now In Use
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver Opposes Drastic Changes—Deplores Fre¬ quent Revisions of the Jewish Liturj^y— Precedent Seen for Religious Bodies When the Social Justice Commission Recommends the RecoiJrnition of Birth Control— Resolution Is Passed Calling Upon Jewish Mer¬ chants Throughout the Country to Keep Thcir Places of Business Closed on the High Holidays
RABBI DAVH> LEFKOWITZ OF DALLAS, TEXAS, IS
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF CONFERENCE
FOR THE COMING YEAR
CHANGES NAME OP MU¬ SEUM HE ENDOWED
CHICAGO—The name of the Rosen¬ wald Industrial Museum of Chicago will be changed to the Museum of Science of History, the change being made at the insistence of Mr. Julius Rosenwald, who endowed the institution with l!3,OOl>,000, over the protest of the Boar<l of Trus¬ tees.
"Whatever I contributed toward founding the museum has been with the firm belief that it will play a useful part in onr educational, industrial and scientific life,"" Mr. Rosenwald declared in announcing his decision for the change in the name.
Leo F. Wormscr, secretary of the board of trustees, said that Mr. Rosen¬ wald's "impersonal action marks a sig¬ nal departure from the traditional per¬ sonal form of public gifts."
The contract for the building to be erected in Jackson Park here, costing ^5,000,000 has been granted.
Legal Action to Collect Delin¬ quent U. J. C. Pledges
SYRACUSE.—Spurred by the decision in New York City of Judge Sulzberger that a pledge made in the United Jewish Campaign is a legal obligation payable under the law, coupled with the report of the dreadful conditions among Jew¬ ish children in Russia, Bernard B. Given, state chairman of the United Jewish campaign instructed all local campaign chairmen to start legal action against all per&onii who are delinquent in paying their pledges to the United Jewish Cam¬ paign.
Following the decision of Judge Sulz¬ berger, a number of other delinquent pledgors paid up their subscriptions.
"Subscribers in every community in New York State who do not think enough Of their honor to pay up their legal and moral obligations, will now feel the full force of the law," State Chairnian Given declared in his state¬ ment to local chairmen'authorizing them to start proceedings to collect the funds. The legal committee of the United Jew¬ ish Campaign is composed of the fol¬ lowing: Willard W. Saperaton, Ruflfalo; Berram Aufsesser, .Albany, and Benja¬ min Stolz, Syracuse.
Aleph Zadek Aleph Opens
Annual Convention In
Pittsburgh
ProgrcHs of Organization Dur¬ ing Past Year Is Received by Speakers
PlTTSHURGIL^ith more than 200 young men representing states through¬ out the Union and Canada in attendance, the sixth annual convention of the Aleph Zadek .Mcpli, junior order of the Inde¬ pendent Order B'nai B'rilh, was opened Friday niouiing iu the Y. M- IL A. here.
Abe Slijw, of Kansas City, Grand Aleph Godol of the order, presided. Rabbi Sul B. Friedman, Monroe Fruch- handliT. .f\. L, Worlk ami City Solicitor ^Ciidrli,.! 'W^alsclunidt welcomed the dele¬ gates. '
*'Tlie year now ending has seen a tre- meiidnus strciigtiieniiiff of the Order through new chapters and niembers," -de¬ clared Abe Shaw in his ineasage to the convention, "Our total active mcmber- aliip last year was 1,800 and our alunmi meniliership ItlH, while this year our mem¬ bership records ."ibow a total active inem- her^iliip of 2,100 and an alumni member¬ ship of 175, an increase<I total of 3'3% ^ctive and 9% alumni. Thirty-three new- units were added during the past year."
Reviewing the religious, educational and social work during the past twelve innntli'-, he recommended the'publication of a national magazine iu the interests of the organization, that the h. Z, A. adopt a more impressive and longer first degree ritual, that an international bcst-all- aniiind-Aleph award be established, that eacii chapter hold monthly educational programs and create .sjiccial social serv¬ ice cutnmittecs, that each year's conven¬ tion assume one of the themes of the Alepli Zadek Aleph, and that the con¬ vention adopt a message of congratula¬ tion ill honor of Alfred M. Cohen, presi¬ dent of the I, O. B. B. on his 70th birth¬ day.
Among resolutions adopted were that national A. Z. A. Sabbath and Mothcr'.s Day be permanent celebrations for all A, Z. A. Cliapters, that all members on reaching their majority be granted life niembership and that a national alumni organization be formed and that the fi¬ nancial income of the respective chap¬ ters be apportioned so as to give \h% to charity.
Friday evening community-wide serv¬ ices were held in the "Y" auditorium with Rabbi Goodman A. Rose, Beth Shalom Synagogue, officiating.
WILL SEEK RECOVERY OF ESTATE LOST IN 180G
WASHINGTON — The recovery of an estate of 800 acres, confiscate*! 123 years ago when ceded to Russia under the Treaty of Tilsit in 180G, is the mis¬ sion of Rabbi Simon Glazer of Temple Beth El, Brooklyn, N. Y., who stated he will shortly leave for Lithuania to pre¬ sent the claim of his family to the es¬ tate. Rabbi Glazer said he had spent .several days in the Library of Congress here obtaining data concerning the Tilsit Treaty, which he requires to support Ins claim.
The town of Pashaltuno, ncnr the Shoshiva River, at the Prussian boundary has been built on the laiuls comprisuig the estate which originally belonged to his great grandfather, Isaiah Glazer, Rabbi Glazer said. Though realiicin^ the difficult nature of his claim, Rabbi glazer said he is hopeful of effecting a batisfac
DETROIT, MICH. — The Central Conference of American I-tabbis, in con¬ vention here from Wednesday, June 2f»th, until Monday, July 1st, went on record in favor of a i;cvision of the jirayer book that is in use in more than 400 Reform congregations throughout America.
By a large vote, members attending the fortieth annual convention at Tem¬ ple Beth El, adopted a resolution call¬ ing for "a thorough revision" of the prayer book and the undertaking, pre¬ liminary to a revision, ".studies of the various aspects of the problem of the revision of the prayer lK)ok."
For Revision
The resolution providing for this ac¬ tion is as follows:
"ResoUed: that the lime haji come for a thoroughgoing revision of both \olunies' of lhe L'nion pra>er book and that the Con f ercnce request the Committee on Liturgy to take this into considoration iu its joint meeting with the Committee to be ¦¦ appointed by the Uhion of Ameri¬ can Hebrew Congregations.
"This resolution was unanim¬ ously concurred in by the Com¬ mittee aud the Committee suggests, as a neccasary preliminary to re¬ vision that the iucomiuK officers appoint a number of members oE the Conference to make studies of the I'arious aspects of tbe problem oi the revi'^ion of the prayer book and to present the results of their studies at the next meeting of the Conference.'*
Included in the resolution was at amendment propo.sed by Dr. ^ Solomon Freehof of Chicago, that a connnittee be appointed -"to circularize the mem bers of the ConfL-rence and lo ascertain explicitly and in detail the opuiion of the various niembers oi the Conference as to de:ails of revision of the prayer book. That this committee should make a study of the replies received and report to the Conference its llind- ings."
Discuss Proposal Dr. David Philipson of Cincinnati, of the first graduating class of the He¬ brew Union College, Dr. .-Xbba Hillel Silver, of Cleveland, and Dr. Edgar F. Magnin of Los Angeles, took up the fight agauist a drastic revision of the prayer book, while Rabbi Samuel Gold- enson, of Pittsburgh, and James J. Heller of Cincinnati, argued in favor of such a step,
A number of rabhi.s stated that large portions of thcir congregations come to services late, intentionally, to avoid the religious part of the service. Rabbi Solomon Landman, in charge of i\\t Jew¬ ish religious activities at the University of Wisconsin, stated that he received many complaints from students garding their non-attendance at services because of what they termed antiquated prayers in the ritual.
Opposes Drastic Changes
Rabbi Silver, while favoring a change in the present prayer book, was strongly opposed to any thoroughgoing revision of the lKx>k.
"On the subject of the prayer book, he said, "to which so many of us have gi\cn considerable thought, it has oc¬ curred to me in the first place that we ought not to be. as a matter of psychol¬ ogy, revising our prayer books so fre quently. One of the gri;at values uf a ritual is the very fact that in the course of time it gathers a host of memories which arc stimulating and which sur¬ round the worshippers with an emotional atmosphere which is congenial to a soul's expression of prayer. Otherwise why have a ritual?
"What we should be concerned with is the intensification of prayer. I have seen whole crowds enter a church where the service was in Latin, where they did not understand a word, and yet received more soul-food than many of us re¬ ceive from our perfectly proper, intel¬ lectual, rational prayer books. You are not going to save Reform Judaism, or any other type ^f Judaisni, by <ncw prayer books. I am in favor of eliminat¬ ing the patently objectionable portions.
prayer jou will give thcni they will tire of in ten years.
AgainRt "Companionate Prayers'*
"This is an age thai is clamoring for companionate marriage; let us nut clamor for companionate prayers.
"I should like to see a committee nf the be.-)t minds in this body appoinled to sliidy the (|uestion," he concluded. "Tf, as a result of these findings, we shall then ^ he in fai'or of a revision it will be time enough for the Conference to go on record to that effect."
Others who took part in the <lebate were Rahbi Abraham J. Feldman, of Hartford, Conn.; Rabbi I-ouis Witt, of Dayton, Ohio; Rabbi Bernard Heller, of Scranton, Pa,; Rabbi Solomon Fos¬ ter, of Newark, N. J.;'Rabbi Solomon Fineberg, of New York, and Dr. Julian Mnrgenstern, president of the Hebrew Union College.
The Union prayer book was first is¬ sued in 1894 and was revised iu IMIR and I!l21. Dr. David Philipson was secretary of the commitlce which issued the first edition of this book, and was also chair¬ man of ihc committee in charge of its revision. The book is iu two volumes, the first being devoted to Sabbath prayers, and the three high feasts, Passover, Shabuolh, and Succoth. The second volume deals with Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur. The first part had its first revision in 1918 and a second in 1*J21. This prajer book is now in use in more than 4**0 Reform congregations and in¬ stitutions throughout the country. More than 1,''1''jO,000 copies have been dis- tribuled.
Favor Observance of Holidays A resolution was, passed calling upci, Jewi.sh merchants throughout tbc coun- (Continucd on page C)
Last Rites For Dr. Bogen Held in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES.—More than a thou¬ sand people, including prominent lead¬ ers of tbe Jewish community on the Pa¬ cific Coast, attended the last ¦ rites of Dr. Boris D. Bogen) executive director of the Independent Order B'nai B'rith and former director general of the Amer¬ ican Jewish Joint Distribution Commit¬ tee, who died suddenly Saturday night a family reunion at Arcadia City, California.
Exercises were held at B'nai B'rith Hall, Los Angeles, and were in charge of David Tannenbaum, president of the local lodge, Richard E. Gustadt, secre¬ tary of District No. 4, I, O. B. B. and Rabbi Maxwell H. Dubin of Temple B'nai B'rith.
Eulogies were delivered by Rabbi Hci*- man Lissancr of Tanple Emann-El, Henry Monsky, chairman of the Wider Scope Committee, Lucius Solomons, vice- president of the Constitution Grand Lodge, and I. Irving Lipsitch, repre¬ senting the local Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations and the National Conference of Jewish Social Service,
tory adjustment, in view of the fact that
the land Vi/a^ returned to Lithuania 'with | The trouble is that wc are living iu an
tlte restoration of its sovereignty. * age which is avjd for change. Any nc\v
Zanesville Jewish Commu¬ nity Picnic on Sunday, July 21st
The Jewish Conuminity of Zanesville and vicinity will hold their annual basket picnic and general good time on Sunday, July 21^t at Melichs Grove, one-half mile north of Ro.seville on tbc Mays¬ ville Pike on State Route No. 75.
The local community will meet at the Schute on Seventh Street at 0 A. M., and gn out to the grounds in a body. There will be a soft ball game starting at 10 a. m., between the marrie<l men and the single men followed by runnuigr and novelty races of all kinds for men, women and children at which prizes will be given.
After luncheon there will be bridge for the ladies and gentlemen with individual prizes at each table.
Besides the Zanesville Community large delegations are expected from Coshocton, Cambridge and throughout the aouthea:>tern part of the state.
Committees under chairman Sam Cornell are arranging all the dutails so as to leave tio stone unturned to make this the gala event of the year.
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Central Ohio's Only
Jcwiih Newspaper
Reaching floery Home
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Devoted to American
and
Jewish Ideals
Vol. XII —No. 27
COLUMHUS, OIIJO. JULY i^. nj^^j
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
Unanimity Marks Reelection
of Louis Lipsky At Close
of Convention
Several Changes Aro Made In the Constitution of Organi¬ zation and Its Personnel
INVOKE U, Sa INTEREST IN RUSSIAN ZIONIST PERSE¬ CUTIONS
JJlHTiOIT, MICH.—For the first time ill many years a uuanimous vote marked the election of officers of the Ziouilia Hillel Silver. Meyer W. Weisgal was elected secretary, Morris Weinlieri;, treasurer, and Harry P. Fier.. A :iubsidy of $G,500 a year was voted the Hadoar and, following considerable discusiiioii on the question of the Avukah, with James Waterman Wise, Erra Sliapiro, Morris Rothenberg and others participating, it was finally de¬ cided to grant the Avukah $5,000 an¬ nually beginning January 1, 10^0, after the newly elected treasurer, Morris Weinberg, promised to see that the sum will he ^secured.
The question of an increase in dues was solved at the close of the last ses¬ sion on Monday which lasted until past (Continued on page 4)
LOCAL RABHI WAS
HONORED BY ZIONIST
CONVENTION
iting fricnd.s aud relatives in
|iur Goldberg, -i'\0 Linwood
: on Tuesday for Cincinnati
Cioldberg who has heen there
Mr. aud Mrs. (Joldbcrg
iiain in Ctncinnali for several
SOLOMON RIVLIN
Among the men honored by the re¬ cently held Zionist Convention in Detroit is Rahbi SuIuiikju Rivlin nf the Fast Broad Street Temple wliu was elected to the national ext-cutive committee of the Zionist OrKani/ation uf America. Kabbi Rivlin has been a Zionist agitator and propagandist for a number of jtars. He has done e.specially fine work on be¬ half of the rehabilitation of Palestine in Dcs Moines, Iowa, f^oincrvillo, Mass., and Columbus, Ohio.
Joint Picnic of The Agudath Achim Religious School and Junior Congregation
Annual Affair Will Take Place
At Hempy's Picnic Ground,
Sunday, July 14th, 1929
The Dnt'e—Sunday, July l-lth, VJ2i).
The Place—Hempy's Picnic Grounds. ' Hwj ta Ci't There—Drive out East Main Street to Brtce Road, then south on Brice Road through Brice Village, and turn left at church. Follow the road until j uu come to the picnic ground.s.
Watch the signs along the roads.
All children who attend the Religinuonsorship of our Cam¬ paign through the medium of your paper, the Ohio Jewish Chronicle, otmtributed greatly, we feet sure, towards the suc¬ cess of our Drive at that time.
With sincerest appreciation of your services, and with best wishes for your continued success, I am,
Very cory siiccuinbing to the lure of dramatic action in the intermarriage .story, unfortunately the Iheine of most of the short storie.-' submitted for publi¬ cation in Jewish periodicals.
Tn 'announcing the conditions of the contest, The Jeivi^h Fontm wrote, "Be- ;m'-e nf the scarcity Of good short stories emphasizing the spirit of loyalty to 'tra¬ ditional Judaism the contest will be limited to such storica as jiortray the successful struggle with those conditions iu the country that militate against traditionally Jewisli religious life and aspirations. No story wilh an intermarriage theme will be eligible for entry in this contest."
"Wc are very much gratified by tbc effort made on the part of the contribu¬ tors to this contest," .says the Editor of The Jc^i*ish I'oriim. Mr. Isaac Rosen- garten, in the July issue of that monthly. ".'Ml writers who understood the condi¬ tions of the contest, stressed the spirit of loyalty to Jewish tradition. While wc feel that it will take a little mOre time before the ability of writers of first rank i\ill bcconiu manifest among -some of lhe participants in a contest breathing the spirit of loyaTty to Jewish tradition, wc are confident that some oi the talent elicited by such contests wil! ultimately develop powerful defenders of Judaism and the highest ideals of our peo¬ ple."
The Jn^'i.sh Forum is publishcil as a literary monthly for the twelfth year. Us office is 40 West ;i2nd Street, Xew York City,'
ADOLPH OCHS INCREASES niillUEW UNION COLLEGE 00,OQO made by Julius Roscn¬ wald, on condition that $3,500,- 000 be ruiRcd besides his sub- aeriptitm.. Fo«r individual half- milliun dollar contributions have been received, from Mr. Rosen¬ wald, the Guggenheim fnmily, the Schiff and Warburg fnmily, and .Mr. and Mrs. Ochs, nil of New Yurk City.. The total ti» date is now $-1,119,382.70.
l>n IMorgenstern stated lie is confident that the amount still needed to roach the goal of $5,- 000,000 will Kfiun be forthcom¬ ing, as many have promised con¬ tributions but have not yet de- tcrminod the amount.
Mr, Ochs is chairman of the Endowment Fund campaign.
Central Conference of American Rabbis Favors
The Revision of the Union Prayer
Book Now In Use
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver Opposes Drastic Changes—Deplores Fre¬ quent Revisions of the Jewish Liturj^y— Precedent Seen for Religious Bodies When the Social Justice Commission Recommends the RecoiJrnition of Birth Control— Resolution Is Passed Calling Upon Jewish Mer¬ chants Throughout the Country to Keep Thcir Places of Business Closed on the High Holidays
RABBI DAVH> LEFKOWITZ OF DALLAS, TEXAS, IS
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF CONFERENCE
FOR THE COMING YEAR
CHANGES NAME OP MU¬ SEUM HE ENDOWED
CHICAGO—The name of the Rosen¬ wald Industrial Museum of Chicago will be changed to the Museum of Science of History, the change being made at the insistence of Mr. Julius Rosenwald, who endowed the institution with l!3,OOl>,000, over the protest of the Boarer book and that the Con f ercnce request the Committee on Liturgy to take this into considoration iu its joint meeting with the Committee to be ¦¦ appointed by the Uhion of Ameri¬ can Hebrew Congregations.
"This resolution was unanim¬ ously concurred in by the Com¬ mittee aud the Committee suggests, as a neccasary preliminary to re¬ vision that the iucomiuK officers appoint a number of members oE the Conference to make studies of the I'arious aspects of tbe problem oi the revi'^ion of the prayer book and to present the results of their studies at the next meeting of the Conference.'*
Included in the resolution was at amendment propo.sed by Dr. ^ Solomon Freehof of Chicago, that a connnittee be appointed -"to circularize the mem bers of the ConfL-rence and lo ascertain explicitly and in detail the opuiion of the various niembers oi the Conference as to de:ails of revision of the prayer book. That this committee should make a study of the replies received and report to the Conference its llind- ings."
Discuss Proposal Dr. David Philipson of Cincinnati, of the first graduating class of the He¬ brew Union College, Dr. .-Xbba Hillel Silver, of Cleveland, and Dr. Edgar F. Magnin of Los Angeles, took up the fight agauist a drastic revision of the prayer book, while Rabbi Samuel Gold- enson, of Pittsburgh, and James J. Heller of Cincinnati, argued in favor of such a step,
A number of rabhi.s stated that large portions of thcir congregations come to services late, intentionally, to avoid the religious part of the service. Rabbi Solomon Landman, in charge of i\\t Jew¬ ish religious activities at the University of Wisconsin, stated that he received many complaints from students garding their non-attendance at services because of what they termed antiquated prayers in the ritual.
Opposes Drastic Changes
Rabbi Silver, while favoring a change in the present prayer book, was strongly opposed to any thoroughgoing revision of the lKx>k.
"On the subject of the prayer book, he said, "to which so many of us have gi\cn considerable thought, it has oc¬ curred to me in the first place that we ought not to be. as a matter of psychol¬ ogy, revising our prayer books so fre quently. One of the gri;at values uf a ritual is the very fact that in the course of time it gathers a host of memories which arc stimulating and which sur¬ round the worshippers with an emotional atmosphere which is congenial to a soul's expression of prayer. Otherwise why have a ritual?
"What we should be concerned with is the intensification of prayer. I have seen whole crowds enter a church where the service was in Latin, where they did not understand a word, and yet received more soul-food than many of us re¬ ceive from our perfectly proper, intel¬ lectual, rational prayer books. You are not going to save Reform Judaism, or any other type ^f Judaisni, by tern part of the state.
Committees under chairman Sam Cornell are arranging all the dutails so as to leave tio stone unturned to make this the gala event of the year.
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